Old-world craft, modern attitude, made to be worn.
Left of Colorado started the way most good side quests do: a home studio overflowing with projects and a lifelong habit of turning clothes into personal canvases.
By day, I'm a creative director. By night, I'm keeping a family craft tradition alive. My great aunt, grandmother, and mom all did hand embroidery, mostly crewel work, and I've been stitching for over 20 years. I love the lost-art feeling of it, but I've never been interested in embroidery that just hangs on a wall. I want it on a jacket, a sweatshirt, a hat. Wearable. Lived-in. Loud in the best way.
Over time, I realized my favorite part is composition: drawing patterns, building scenes, balancing elements until the whole piece feels intentional. That same instinct pulled me toward vintage patches and eventually to painting hat brims. I'm a flea market regular and lifelong collector, so giving overlooked pieces a second life was kind of inevitable. I hand-select every patch, build a theme, and sew them on one at a time. No two are alike, because I don't want anyone wearing what everyone else is wearing.
The palette and spirit come from the California high desert and the great western expanse: prickly pear, moths, trail badges, sun-faded color, a little grit. Everything in the shop is meant to feel like a keepsake you found on a road trip and then made your own.
Left of Colorado is my commitment to bold, useful clothing with a point of view, and to giving new life to pieces that deserved better than being forgotten.
